Hi I finally get to hear (and see) Alan's keynote video. A lot of it made sense expect for a few questions that came to mind:
1. If interaction designers understand the business and are supposedly the post-industrial business facilitators for the programmers to do their craftsmanship, what role do the business managers play? 2. Alan talked about design engineering and production engineering along with interaction design. I could understand that interaction designers do interaction design and programmers do production engineering. I couldnt figure out who does the design engineeriing. Also where does the software architect (who designs the interaction between the pieces of software, the computer-computer interaction) fit in all this. Is he the design engineering or is he also part of the production engineering? 3. For the engineering community at large, including the business managemnet teams that manage the engineering teams, interaction designers are at best user interface designers who are needed to design the user interface (more specfically look and feel). So if the substantial majority of the people involved in the whole process of software creation consider interaction designers to be a small part of the total process, how are the interaction designers going to respond to the call given by Alan to get up and take the control in their hand from the business managers and tell and give the programmers their freedom to do their craftsmanship. I am sure business managers are not going to let go so easiliy as Alan has categorized them as industrial era artifacts who are no longer needed in the post-industrial era. Even if they do, the programmers may not be open to the idea because just like interaction designers design human-computer interaction, they design computer-computer interaction. Why wont they like to be equal partners rather than in some way be sub-ordinates to interaction designers (atleast the closing statement by Alan reinforced that feeling of subordinating programmers and taking control from business managers). -- Cheers Pankaj --------------------------------------------- http://13degree.wordpress.com Do your dreams! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
